Funeral For Free Speech

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: July 9, 2007
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Today I may have witnessed one of the most backwards but well meaning of displays.

I support the effort to be more sensitive to others.
I support not using hurtful terms like ‘n*gger’ in anything that is not “creative expression”.

We should be mindful of others, set good examples, be tactful and act with class, but at the same time this is America and we must always support the right to be unpopular.

Demonstrators marched in a mock funeral procession through downtown Detroit on Monday in a symbolic burial of the “N-word” and an effort to persuade black Americans to stop using a variant of the racial slur in hip-hop music, comedy and casual conversation.

I will first say that this seems to be a positive thing, so there is nothing wrong with a positive effort in any form.

But is what is really being said is “ban free speech”?

The nature of free speech is that it is unpopular. Free spech that is popular is something you can get in every country.

Even Cuba allows people to stand up and “freely” say things that everyone agrees with.

In America we can say whatever we want, and if people dont like it or are offended then that really is not the speakers concern.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm joined the event. This is fine and good, but do we really want elected officials marching to end free spech.

Even when fighting free speech in such a foul form, you are still wrong to do so. Unpopular speech is just as free as all others.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Victoria Lanier, a NAACP activist from New York, gave a mock obituary arguing that the racist slur with its roots in American slavery and all its modern variations as used by some blacks and in hip-hop could not be separated.

“We will bury this offensive usage among all people, including African Americans,” Lanier said.

While this seems like a positive thing, this is really a disturbing statement. We should never bury free speech just because some are offended by it.

Is it offensive, yes i’d say it is.

Is offensive illegal? or against what America stands for? No it is not.

The AP story coveriung this event had the following two lines

“Most demonstrators and speakers avoided direct mention of the epithet, which came into focus again last year after former “Seinfeld” actor Michael Richards used it repeatedly in a videotaped tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club.”

“A similar controversy erupted in April when talk show host Don Imus made a derogatory remark about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, a remark that prompted his firing by CBS.”

It seems to me that with all the grandstanding this si still the same REAL issue. It is something that white people can not say under threats of action from activist groups.

But I am still waiting for Al Sharpton to “clean up rap music” like he said he would after the Imus story turned on him.

After Sharpton and Jackson and other leeches targetted Imus while not raising a finger against the hundreds of Rappers that use the same language the backlash cam back on them.

Sharpton promised to target a black celebrity next, but I am still waiting for that story to break.

While I am waiting for this hate spech to be stopped in America.

Read how the hypocrisy of the NAACP runs wild.

You can read this story about the AWARD given by the NAACP to Isaah Washington after he called a coworker a “faggot”.

“On its web site, the NAACP describes the Image Awards as the “nation’s premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice.” Awarding someone who calls a co-worker a “faggot,” lies about it and then lamely checks himself into rehab is hardly the paragon of “social justice.”

http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31210.html

I wonder if this coffin will go into the ground anytime soon?

It seems as if “f*ggot” and “n*gger” went into the ground and 3 days later “Hypocrisy” was resurrected?

A funeral for the word nigger in Detroit with the NAACP

funeral

funeral for n word

Isaah Washington

Isaah Washington faggot

naacp

march in detroit

al sharpton

jesse jackson

5 Responses to “Funeral For Free Speech”

Flaxen-headed Strumpet on July 9th, 2007 11:08 pm

So did they bury “nigger” or “nigga”?
Michael Kraft on July 9th, 2007 11:37 pm

They just seem to have buried the ones that Imus and Michael Richards used.

Chris Rock’s versions of the “n word” are ok still I think.

Last I checked all of the BET channel’s version of it are still ok too.
Bill Flynn Jr on July 10th, 2007 9:40 am

Imus never used the word Nigga. It should be pointed out however that when Imus came out in support of Shug Night in his court battles that Shug did say that the Iman was his nigga. Which for those unaquainted is a word that means Bud or compatriot. Lenny Bruce was right.
Pamela A. Hairston on July 12th, 2007 2:26 pm

As for infamous n-word, one that didn’t orginate in the “hood”, if I ever get my slavery reparations check in the mail, white folks can call me n*****, n*****, n***** alllllllllllllllllllllllll the way home, for the debt will finally have been paid.

God bless and protect our children and soldiers everywhere!

Pamela A. Hairston
Washington, DC
Michael Kraft on July 12th, 2007 3:16 pm

“slavery reparations check” ?

No comment, that statement is stupid enough on its own.